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Until recently Artesian Builds was a PC building company and, with 50 employees and multi-million dollar revenue, one of considerable size. As part of its business Artesian would livestream the building of high-end custom PCs, and do giveaways. One o

RELEASETBC DEVELOPERWadjet Eye Games PUBLISHERIn-house LINK wadjeteyegames.com PLAYED IT This upcoming time travel point-and-click adventure is the latest from genre king Dave Gilbert of Wadjet Eye Games, known for the excellent Blackwell series

RELEASE2023 DEVELOPERStarward Industries PUBLISHER11 Bit Studios LINK invinciblethegame.com NEW INFO Polish sci-fi stunner The Invincible left a hell of a first impression when it was first announced back in 2020 – and that was just with a handf

RELEASETBC DEVELOPER11 Bit Studios PUBLISHERIn-house LINK altersthegame.com FIRST LOOK Frostpunk developer 11 Bit Studios is swapped snow for space with its next game, The Alters – a “classic sci-fi” tale of survival among the stars. You play as

RELEASE2023 DEVELOPERBethesda Game Studios PUBLISHERBethesda Softworks LINK bethesda.net NEW INFO The first new IP created by Bethesda for 25 years, so they say, and more specifically described as “Skyrim in space” by its director Todd Howard, S

As I step inside the room of Jessica Tulipe – a towering Viera with mahogany hair and flopsy ears – I’m surprised how unassuming it is. It’s decorated beautifully, with a bar and red plush seating, but it’s not the room I expected from a pro dominatr

RELEASE2023 DEVELOPERCapcom PUBLISHERIn-house LINK streetfighter.com/6 PLAYED IT I have played Street Fighter 6, and it is good. It might even be incredible. Despite playing casually since the ’90s, I don’t have the expertise required to offer i

RELEASESep 13 DEVELOPERFatshark PUBLISHERIn-house LINK playdarktide.com PLAYED IT My favourite thing in Darktide is the skull. OK, let me clarify – there’s definitely more than one skull. But I was enamoured with one in particular: the skull dec

RELEASE2023 DEVELOPERNecrosoft Games PUBLISHERYsbryd Games LINK demonschool.com FIRST LOOK This new tactics RPG combines familiar elements into something that looks completely new. The hook is that movement equals action – a new one on me when i

RELEASETBC DEVELOPERSaber Interactive PUBLISHERFocus Entertainment LINK bit.ly/SpaceMarine2 NEW INFO Saying we were a bit excited when it was announced that, after a decade of waiting, Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine was getting a sequel would be

RELEASE2023 PUBLISHERBethesda DEVELOPERArkane Austin LINK bethesda.net/en/game/redfall NEW INFO It’s really tempting fate to call your sleepy island town ‘Redfall’ – with a name like that, you can hardly be upset if a bunch of vampires take over

FIRST LOOK RELEASETBC DEVELOPERSquare Enix PUBLISHERIn-house LINK na.finalfantasyxvi.com If you were in any doubt that Final Fantasy XVI would feature summons, be reassured by the recent, action-heavy trailer. Your pals Ifrit and Shiva are here, a

When I was small, my dad took me with him on a trip across the desert outside of Dubai, where we lived, to scout the route drivers would be taking in an upcoming rally. After a day of bouncing around in a 4x4, I was tired and bruised, but I came away

RELEASEMarch 24, 2023 DEVELOPERCapcom PUBLISHERIn-house LINK residentevil.com/re4 FIRST LOOK You’ve played the original, the HD remaster, and (probably) the recent fan mod – are you ready for Leon S Kennedy to receive yet another facelift? To be

WHAT IS IT?An adventure about gambling and sleight of hand, set in 17th century France EXPECT TO PAY£17 DEVELOPERNerial PUBLISHERDevolver Digital REVIEWED ONRyzen 5 3600X, 32GB RAM, RTX 2070 MULTIPLAYERNo LINK bit.ly/3bYwLfS There are plenty of ca

WHAT IS IT?A funny, if infuriating follow-up to puzzle game Baba is You EXPECT TO PAYFree DEVELOPERHempuli PUBLISHERIn-house REVIEWED ONIntel Core i7-10750H, 16GB RAM, GeForce RTX 2060 MULTIPLAYERNo LINK bit.ly/BabaXtreme I love a good grid, parti

WHAT IS IT?Every Hong Kong action movie strained through a GTA sock EXPECT TO PAY£16 DEVELOPERUnited Front Games PUBLISHERSquare Enix REVIEWED ONIntel Core i7-7700 CUP @ 3.60GHz, 16 GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070, Windows 10 MULTIPLAYERNo LINK bit.

The traditional image of a gaming PC is some hulking monster of a machine, dominating your desktop like some great colossus. But there is something innately satisfying about squeezing the same amount of gaming power into a pint-sized system. And I ca

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THIS MONTHStill got my arse handed to me by online players, of course. ALSO PLAYEDLegends of Runeterra, Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga I don’t think DNF Duel is likely to gain much traction among Western fighting game fans. It’s a spin-off of a

THIS MONTHExchanged real tools for virtual ones. ALSO PLAYEDOlliOlli World, Halo Infinite A fter sweeping up the sawdust from the renovation of my real life home, I was left with an enthusiasm for Japanese power tools and a craving to craft somethin

RELEASENovember 8, 2013 PUBLISHERIn-house DEVELOPERThe Indie Stone LINK projectzomboid.com/blog M ost games are polite enough to wait until you’ve died before telling you that you’ve died. Project Zomboid does it before you even start playing. I

THIS MONTHUsed hypnotism mostly for good. ALSO PLAYEDTangle Tower, Kentucky Route Zero This game features acting that I can only really describe as ‘catastrophic’. One actor in particular constantly sounds like he’s using his mouth to form human wor

It was once a hidden gateway to magically higher framerates. Overclocking seemed an arcane art previously, a mystical set of inputs in a scary command window that conjured up extra performance where there had been none. The screws stayed tight on you

THIS MONTHReenacted the last duel from The Last Duel. ALSO PLAYED Old World Chivalry 2 released a year ago on the Epic Games Store, but now it’s on Steam, so my friends might actually play it with me. Hurrah! For their patience, they’ll avoid some

As it turns out, we’ve been burning quite a lot of gas to make electricity. About 29% of our gas is used for generating it here in the UK. Also, 3% of all the gas we consume here comes from Russia, and since Russia invaded Ukraine that supply line’s

I ’ve always been convinced that the best part of game development must be getting to write RPG flavour text. It’s where RPG scribes can get weird or scratch a particular writing itch without the pressure that comes from fitting it into the main stor

1. Characters must always transform when given the chance.2. Must make a genuine effort to complete quests.3. Legacy characters play by the rules of the first diary. L ast month, I tried to assemble the worst party imaginable in fable-spinning RPG W

RELEASESeptember 1, 2015 PUBLISHERIn-house DEVELOPERKojima Productions LINK konami.com/mg/mgsv I don’t think I’ve ever been more excited for a videogame than the years I spent waiting for Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. Once it was finally

We’re 11 years on from Duke Nukem Forever’s launch now – surely that’s the perfect time to announce a sequel, for release in 2042? Rumour is this long-anticipated crossover has been put on hold because its plot contains “accidental yet disturbing par